Concepts to keep in mind.
Categories: {y-axis :{Natural Balance: Human Miscalculation]} ,{ x-axis :{Humanism : Self Interest}}
A map of themes to address/keep in mind while shaping an outline for a short screenplay, sequence, or feature outline which:
- setting includes future scenarios (drawing from Energy, Future of New Media/Infrastructure, Engineering Bodies of War & Anthropocene concepts)
- main character is an AI who is operationally/intellectually limited by her creators but who can ostensibly make boolean judgements (based on knowledge within her reach) without emotional compromise.
- presents ethical and emotional dynamics at the heart of 'the human condition'
- attempts to challenge/address the limitations of verbal language and fiction/storytelling to communicate a richer, accurate, more complete picture of reality.
- is a personal exploration of systems thinking, scenario planning through science fiction screenwriting
- final presentation will be a reading, or a visualization of the outline text.
DAILY PRACTICE
Three hours of absolute silence and observation of social interactions around me.
RESEARCH/EXPERTS
Science fiction author, philosopher, cyberneticist, HCI, Artificial Intelligence researcher.
QUESTIONS
Useful to start thinking about it in macro terms: Machine vs. Self/ Machine vs. Society nested within a Man vs. Nature story? Or Man vs. Society.
How to create a narrative which is both engrossing and well-paced and which constructs a plausible world.
How to examine the ethics and semantics of imagemaking and selective reality-recreation. Important as films can be so seductive if successful. Interesting challenge lies in creating a persuasive film which is not just a means to it's own self-referential ends.
Should the presentation be a performance as the AI character with screenplay as backstory? How to work a standalone, interactive performance dynamically into a set with the screenplay?